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Short ETFs: Everything You Need To Know

Michael Johnston — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:00:25 +0000

As the ETF universe has expanded by leaps and bounds in recent years, investors now have tools at their disposal to accomplish almost every objective. From plain vanilla stock and bond indexes to hyper-targeted regional and sector funds, there are ETFs to bet on just about every asset class. And there are also a number of ETFs that can be used to bet against certain asset asset classes, which can be powerful tools for turning a profit in the types of environments that generally bring a sea of red ink to portfolio statements. Inverse ETFs, also known as short ETFs, have become extremely popular for a wide variety of objectives, including as hedging tools and vehicles for speculating on declines in value [see Free Report: How To Pick The Right ETF Every Time]. Short ETFs 101 Short or inverse ETFs generally seek to deliver results that correspond to the inverse, [...]

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Five ETFs To Play The NASDAQ

Michael Johnston — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:00:02 +0000

With some 3,700 companies, the NASDAQ has more trading volume than any other stock exchange in the world. The NASDAQ 100 is one of the world’s most widely-followed indexes, measuring the performance of 100 of the largest domestic and international nonfinancial companies listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market. As the ETF industry has boomed, billions of dollars have flowed into funds offering exposure to this benchmark, as many investors have made the NASDAQ a core portfolio holding. The NASDAQ 100 Index is tilted towards technology companies — this sector accounts for about 63% of the benchmark — but also includes some big names in other industries. Starbucks, Staples, Urban Outfitters, Amgen, and Teva Pharmaceutical are just a handful of the consumer discretionary and health care stocks with material weightings in the index. The concentration in the tech sector makes NASDAQ exposure ideal for investors looking to overweight this part of [...]

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The Definitive Inverse ETF Guide: Short/Bear ETFs 101

Andy H — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:20 +0000

As the stock market continues to rise, seemingly running ahead of fundamentals, more and more investors are becoming concerned that the stocks are becoming overvalued, and that a downward correction may be just around the corner. While safe haven investments such as the U.S. dollar and gold are popular picks for investors looking to profit from a decline in asset prices, the inverse correlation between these investments and equities is far from perfect. A growing number of investors are beginning to utilize inverse ETFs to accomplish a wide range of investment goals, ranging from establishing hedges in their portfolios to speculating on a pullback in prices. If used correctly, these products can be very powerful, but they can be complex and come with a number of risks that should be carefully considered. Taking a short position in certain asset classes is, of course, noting new. Investors have been utilizing short [...]

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Responding To Calls For ETF Regulation

Michael Johnston — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:30:35 +0000

In the week during which the Obama administration will unveil details surrounding its plan to revamp the regulation of the U.S. financial sector, calls for increased oversight of the ETF industry are picking up steam as well. Scott Burns, director of ETF Analysis at Morningstar, recently laid out a case for increased regulatory requirements for ETFs that use derivatives to achieve their objectives. But I’m not quite convinced that more regulation is the answer. In The Beginning… The first ETFs were equivalent to “plain vanilla” financial instruments, tracking well-known equity and fixed income indexes by duplicating their underlying holdings. Even today, the simplest ETFs remain among the most popular – the indexes tracked by the largest ETFs by market capitalization should be familiar to almost all investors. But as the ETF structure became more familiar and investors became more educated on the advantages of ETFs relative to traditional mutual funds, the [...]

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